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On December 30, the Constitutional Court (TC) admitted seven candidates to the elections to the Presidency of the Republic, which will take place on January 24, receiving missing documentation from André Ventura and Tiago Mayan, and excluding Eduardo Baptista .
The TC ruling, published on the Court’s page, admits the candidacies of João Ferreira, Marisa Matias, André Ventura, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Vitorino Silva, Ana Gomes and Tiago Mayan and decides not to admit the candidacy of Eduardo Baptista.
Even the ballots will be headed by a candidate who does not go to vote
As for the candidates who had been notified to add missing documentation, the judges say that Ventura sent “information about his professional activity, so nothing prevents the admission of the respective application.” The candidate supported by the Liberal Initiative, Tiago Mayan, also sent the TC the identification document of his representative, former CDS-PP deputy Michael Seufert, and reorganized “the statements of proposition and the respective electoral certificates, in terms of making 7,500 valid declarations, so nothing prevents the admission of the respective application ”.
The military Eduardo Baptista, who had presented 11 voter signatures, of which only six were valid, delivered another four of the 7,500 required and his candidacy was rejected.
“Regardless of other considerations, the lack of presentation of a sufficient number of proposition statements to conform to the legal minimum determines the non-admission of the respective application,” says the TC.
Applications are submitted by a minimum of 7,500 and a maximum of 15,000 voters. The presentation of the application implies proof of registration in the census and the indication of the number and date of the respective identification document “and, of course, a statement signed by you that contains the name and other identifying elements of the candidate or candidate”, Judgment TC.
The verification of the regularity of the processes, the authenticity of the documents and the eligibility of the candidates corresponds to the Court, in section, from the deadline for the presentation of the applications and the decision on the admission or rejection of any of the applications presented. Be delivered within the six days following the end of the same period, “he adds.
On the other hand, the law also requires that, in the intermediate period, when procedural irregularities occur, candidates have the opportunity to present them within two days. Thus, “these requirements determined, in the present electoral process, the dates of intervention of the Court, in the section, in this stage: December 28, 2020, the verification of the eligibility of the proposed candidates and the procedural irregularities of the respective candidatures ”and, on day 30, the decision on the admission of the applications submitted.
Before the publication of the sentence, the president of the Constitutional Court, Manuel da Costa Andrade, highlighted that “the material and formal requirements of more than 60,000 statements of proposition and other certificates of vote, autographs or in digital format were verified.”
In a “compliment” to the employees published on the TC website, Costa Andrade stressed that “compliance with the legally established deadlines required that a substantial part of this work be carried out in the short time between 23 and 28 December “, which is why, considered the assessing judge, it is” a duty of justice “to publicly acknowledge the work of Court officials.
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